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No. 626,607. Patented June 6, I899. K. GENTNEB.

STANDARD HOLDER.

(Application filed Oct. 26. 1898.)

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KARI GENTNER, OF FRANKENTHAL, GERMANY.

STANDARD-HOLDER.

SPECIFICATION forming part Of Letters Patent N0. 626,607, dated June 6, 1899. Application filed October 26,1898- Serial No. 694,569. (No model.)

To ctZZ whom it may concern.-

Be it known that I, KARL GENTNER, a citizen of the Empire of Germany, residing at Frankenthal, Germany, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Standard-Holders, of which the following is a specification.

This invention relates to a device for holding and securing in a very short time standards or poles of all kinds to be placed along roads or streets or elsewhere, said standards being hitherto simply driven into the ground and held by wooden or metal wedges, a manner of securing them not sufficiently efficient.

The object of the invention is to provide a simple but substantial means for securing the standards in the ground and for insuring their upright position in a very efficient manner and more quickly and easily than is possible in the ordinary way.

The device is formed by a rectangular casing, preferably made of cast-iron and having three vertical sides, the fourth one being suitably inclined. The standard being sunk into this casing, a suitable metal wedge, adapted to slide along the inclined side of the casing, operates to hold and secure the standard automatically, as more fully and clearly pointed out hereinafter.

In the accompanying drawings I have illustrated, by way of example, one embodiment of the invention, in which Figure 1 is aplan view of the device with the specially-constructed wedge in place. Fig. 2 is a sectional View of same on line 6 f of Fig. 1, a standard being sunk into the casing and held by the wedge. Fig. 3 is a sectional view on line 0 d of Fig. 1. Fig. 4 is a transverse sectional view on line a Z) of Fig. 1. Fig. 5 is a detail perspective of the improved wedge, and Fig. 6 shows the casing sunk into the ground and closed by the inverted wedge.

In the drawings like numerals refer to similar parts throughout all the figures.

1, 2, and 3 designate the vertical sides of the casing, respectivelyprovided with flanges 1, 2", and 3 to hold the casing in position when sunk into the ground. 4 indicates the inclined side of the casing, also provided with a horizontally-projecting flange 4 for the same purpose. This casing is preferably made of cast-iron; but any other suitable material may be employed for its manufacture. The inclined wall 4. has key-like extensions 5 on its inner face extending along its whole length, for the purpose hereinafter set forth. 1

The bottom of the casing is formed by three inclines 6, 7, and S, as shown, whereby the standard when vertically sunk into the easing will always lie against the center of side 2 opposite to incline 4, and the upper and lower corners between sides 1, 2, and 3 have suitable parts 9 and 9, respectively, serving the same purpose.

The standard or post to be erected being sunk into the casing, as indicated in Fig. 2 of the accompanying drawings, it is held and secured therein by the wedge shown in Fig. 5, adapted to slide downwardly by its own weight along three sides of the casing. Said wedge is formed of a plate 10, having two horizontally-projecting arms 11, connected with each other by a central flattened part 12, so as to partially embrace the standard or post. The incline 4 has suitable extensions 5 onits inner face, along which the holdingwedge slides downwardly,said extensions less ening friction on said face and facilitating the down movement of said wedge to secure the standard in the casing and to insure the vertical position thereof.

The wedge being not in use and the standard removed from the casing, the former may be employed as a cover for the latter by inverting the same upon the top of said casing, as shown in Fig. 6.

The casing may be secured in the ground by walling it in the same or by sinking it into the rammed ground or into a concrete foundation, or in any other suitable manner, so that the upper edge of said casing be on a level with the surface of the ground, as shown in Fig. 6.

I wish it to be understood that Ido not confine myself to the precise arrangement and construction of the parts as shown in the accompanying drawings, so long as the peculiar features of my invention be retained.

Having fully described my invention, What I claim, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is

1. An improved standard-holder comprising a metal casing, three sides of which being vertical and the fourth one suitably inclined, the bottom of said casing being formed by three suitable inclined sides and the corners between the vertical sides of the casing formed to hold the standard against the center of the side opposite to the first-mentioned incline of the casing, and means for automatically holding and securing the standard in said casing, substantially as set forth.

2. In a standard-holder as described the combination with a metal casing one side of which being suitably inclined and the opposite side being provided with projections, of a securing and clamping wedge having divergent arms adapted to grasp and hold in upright position and secure the standard in said casing, substantially as set forth.

KARL GENTNER.

Witnesses:

JACOB ADRIAN, JOHN RENscH. 

